introduction: the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (anfis) is a soft computing model based on neural network precision and fuzzy decision-making advantages, which can highly facilitate diagnostic modeling. in this study we used this model in breast cancer detection. methodology: a set of 1,508 records on cancerous and non-cancerous participant’s risk factors was used.  first, the risk fact...

Objective: To evaluate the reliability and accuracy of frozen section (FS) compared with final pathology and to determine whether they should be obligatory in every patient with atypical endometrial hyperplasia (AEH). Methods: We retrospectively assessed the medical records of 192 patients whose endometrial biopsy results were endometrial hyperplasia and underwent hysterectomy at our center. Re...

OBJECTIVES Traditionally, urine cytology has been considered as the gold standard for bladder cancer screening. However, new methods are playing new roles in these cases. In order to assess the value of cytology of voided urine we performed one comparative study between cytology and biopsy. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the results of urine cytology and biopsy follow-up in 109 patients....

We present an approach to efficiently and effectively downsize and adapt the structure of large vocabulary conversational speech recognition (LVCSR) systems to unseen domains, requiring only small amounts of transcribed adaptation data. Our approach aims at bringing todays mostly task dependent systems closer to the aspired goal of domain independence. To achieve this, we rely on the ACID/HNN f...

In the present study an attempt was made to find out the incidence of haemonchosis in ovine and caprine through the DID and IHA tests. The results of the study showed higher incidence in sheep (72.5%) than goats (56%).The age wise incidence in sheep was recorded as 79.16% between 1 to 3 years of age whereas in case of goat it was 70.3% in the same age group. In sheep 16.7% animals suffered from...

It is generally accepted that rapid eye movements (REM) are the most characteristic phenomenon of paradoxical sleep among birds and mammals. This is the reason why Dement and Kleitman (1957) who first described this kind of sleep, called it REM-sleep. The occurrence of REM during paradoxical sleep is fairly well described in humans (Mouret and Jeanne~od 1964, Gabersek and Scherrer 1969), monkey...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common contagious disease, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Besides a rare laryngeal tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis is the only one contagious form of the disease, although it can affect any organ of the human body. TB represents a new challenge to the doctors because it appears with numerous chronic diseases, affects immunocompr...

Sirs, Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been evaluated as a separate disease since 1964 by the American College of RheumatologyACR (1). The first and the simpliest Moll & Wright criteria (2) were followed by a number of classification criteria, but none of them survived enough to be widely used. CASPAR criteria (CIASsification criteria for Psoriatic Arthritis), are derived from a large internationa...